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Show Civil Defense Leaders Hold Evaluation Meet Southern Utah county officials. Civil Defense directors and their staffs met at Cedar City Wednesday Wed-nesday evening, June 4, with State CD officials to evaluate and profit fom knowledge gained gain-ed through Operation Alert exercises exer-cises held on May 6 and 7. This national, state and local operation was known as OPAL 58, and its purpose was to test the state of readiness of governments gov-ernments at all levels, under CD coordination, to quickly draw their existing agencies and instituting in-stituting into controlled emergency emer-gency operations. Goal is to save lives and preserve pre-serve our way of life, should the U.S. be attacked with modern weapons of war. Major problems In this area would be communications communi-cations with neighboring counties coun-ties and states, it was pointed out. This lack of communications communica-tions would hinder safeguards against radiological fallout from targets west of Utah, conserving critical resources and transportation, transporta-tion, and caring for evacuees from target areas. It was determined, through OPAL 58, that the general state or readiness of counties and cities ci-ties in southern Utaii is improving improv-ing while further efforts are needed to establish adequate fallout plotting organizations and alternate communication systems. Outstanding work was done by the Cedar City-Iron County communications section during OPAL 58 In maintaining contact with state and providing Iron County area with adequate contacts. State CD officials expressed satisfaction at the growing understanding un-derstanding in this area, on the part of county commissioners and city officials, that effective defense of our citizens In emergencies emer-gencies depends largely on the preparations made by elected officials of-ficials and their governments to operate under emergency conditions condi-tions as well as in peace time. A discussion of operational problems and readiness needs was conducted by Harold Brown, state survival planning director, who acted as state operations officer of-ficer In OPAL 58. Brown was assisted by Major M. E. Cleveland, Cleve-land, state field representative of the Utah CD corps. Participating in the discussion were county officials and CD staffs of Iron, Washington, Kane and Garfield counties. Meeting was conducted by Milt Sevy, deputy de-puty CD director for Iron County. I i Tasty Testers A first year Cooking 4-H Club has been organized for the summer, sum-mer, and will be known as the Tasty Testers. Officers elected include Vicky Lynn Nelson, president; Patsy Mathews, vice president; Sharon K. Hunter, secretary; Lorrine Fife, song leader; Sharon Stephens, Steph-ens, reporter; Katherine Weaver is activity leader. The club will meet each Thursday. |